Dont Believe Media TASERs are safe

[foodcritic]

Nationwide Independent Taser® Study Results Suggest Devices are Safe
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Nationwide Independent Taser® Study Results Suggest Devices are Safe

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – A nationwide study examining the safety of Tasers® used by law enforcement agencies suggests the devices are safe, causing a low occurrence of serious injuries.
“This study is the first large, independent study of injuries associated with Tasers. It is the first injury epidemiology study to review every Taser deployment and to reliably assess the overall risk and severity of injuries in real world conditions,” said William Bozeman, M.D., the lead investigator and an emergency medicine specialist at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. “The injury rate is low and most injuries appear to be minor. These results support the safety of the devices.”


Nationwide Independent Taser® Study Results Suggest Devices are Safe :: Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center

 

[ImnoMensa]

Tell that to the family's of the dead.

 

[foodcritic]

Unfortunate

Sadly that's an emotional response. The facts of this article speak for themselves. That type of emotional response is more of a cliche. Its a dangerous world, people sadly get hurt. Nothing is perfect.

 

[Dork]

Sadly that's an emotional response. The facts of this article speak for themselves. That type of emotional response is more of a cliche. Its a dangerous world, people sadly get hurt. Nothing is perfect.

Tasers are a fantastic alternative for police to use but the media will make them look so bad to sell their stories. What would you do if you were a cop and had a person trying to hurt you? Should you just take the beating to avoid being raked over the coals in the media? Should you shoot them or use a taser?

 

[Mikeinsmd]

Tell that to the family's of the dead.

I'll tell em in a heartbeat.

If their "angel" was behaving, he wouldn't be tazed now would he?

 

[illfindu2]

Tell that to the family's of the dead.

If they weren't breaking the law, they wouldn't have a problem.

Think of how many other people would be dead if they had to use their guns instead of a taser.

 

[ImnoMensa]

I suppose there is safe and unsafe. The fact is that several people have died from taser use. There is also the fact that obviously they work in certain circumstances.

I read that police often use them in training by shocking themselves. I would suppose that will stop the first time an officer dies.

In certain circumstances with some people they cause death, That is a fact. Of course so do bullets. So its a decision best made by those who have it to make.